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Example sentences for: surly

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"I could see no sign of the Planet attitude, no surly looks in the eyes of the kids behind the cash register," she writes.
We humans deserved a better spokesman at this epochal point in our ongoing voyage of humility; a half century from now, surly, street-tough androids will routinely start bar brawls over the bitchy tone of Kasparov's remarks.
A real-estate broker who fails to sell a big house (her only potential customers are blank-faced African-Americans, Indian-Americans, and surly lesbians), she wears a mask of perky efficiency and insists on listening to Muzak while she and her husband and daughter eat her "nutritious yet savory" dinners.
The surly spin, from Iran's chief theocrat, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei: Iran's "arrogant opponents felt the bitter taste of defeat."
The complaints covered the waterfront: baggage problems, surly flight attendants, mysteriously canceled flights, billing atrocities.